web2py has a generic.pdfIf you just return html and view the page
with .pdf it will be serialized in pdf using pyfpdf. Not all html can
be serialized this way.
On Oct 24, 9:23 pm, chris_g <chrisgu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Annet,
>
> When I explored this a few years ago, I ended up going with an XML
> solution called RML (report markup language). This was developed by
> the makers of reportlab, but there are also free implemntations of RML
> available (such as the z3c implementation.)
> Once I had installed rml2pdf developed XML templates, I used a pdf
> view like this in order to render my RML to pdf.
> RML is very well documented, and I think you will find examples that
> are very similar to your requirements.
>
> Chris
>
> {{
> import gluon.contenttype
> import StringIO
> import z3c.rml.rml2pdf as rml2pdf
>
> resp = StringIO.StringIO()
> rml = response.render('%s/%s.xml' %
> (request.controller,request.function))
> filename = '%s.pdf'%request.function
> resp = rml2pdf.parseString(rml, filename=filename) #creates the
> pdf
> response.headers['Content-Type'] =
> gluon.contenttype.contenttype('.pdf')
> response.headers['Content-disposition'] = "attachment; filename=
> \"%s\"" % filename
> response.write(resp.read(), escape=False)
>
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> }}
